Saturday 2nd August 1919

Cpl. Arthur William Stobart (see 21^st April), serving with the Base Salvage Depoit at Arquata Scrivia, departed for England on two weeks’ leave.

Pte. James Slinger (see 23^rd May), serving with 8^th Yorks. and Lancs. at Fiume, was admitted to hospital to have some teeth extracted.

L.Cpl. John Jackson (19555) (see 23^rd June), serving with 8^th Yorks. and Lancs. at Fiume, was reported as having been ‘drunk in town and resisiting an escort’; he was ordered to undergo 14 days’ Field Punishment No.2.

Sgt. Ronald Jeckell (see 18^th February), serving with 8^th Yorks. and Lancs. at Fiume, departed on two weeks’ leave to England.

Pte. Fred Sutcliffe (see 6^th July), serving with 3DWR at Golden Hill, Pembroke, was reported as for ‘not complying with an order, ie not shaving when ordered to do so; he was ordered to be confined to barracks for six days.

Pte. Fred Rawnsley (see 29^th September 1918), who was an inmate at the Scalebor Park Asylum, Burley-in-Wharfedale, was formally discharged from the Army as no longer fit for service due to ‘dementia’ attributable to his military service; he was awarded an Army pension of 27s. 6d. for one month, rising thereafter to 40s. per week.

The War Office wrote to the mother of 2Lt. John Selby Armstrong Smith (see 18^th December 1917), who had previously served with 10DWR, but had been reported wounded and missing in action in April 1917 while serving with 9DWR; “I am directed to inform you that it is regretted that no further information regarding this officer has been received in spite of the enquiries which have been made. I am to state that all possible steps have been taken to trace missing officers and that it is feared that no possible hope can be held out that 2Lt. Smith has survived or news of him would undoubtedly have been received. I am accordingly to request that you will be good enough to say whether you desire that the question of the official acceptance of his death should now be considered”. She would reply stating, “I do not wish his case to be considered hopeless until the end of October as I have offered a reward for his recovery”.